Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:19:35 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv2 0/3] clocksource: add db8500 PRCMU timer |
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:46:22AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:34:31AM +0200, Mattias Wallin wrote: > > The Multi Timer Unit (MTU) is currently used as clocksource and sched_clk > > for the u8500 machine. The MTU block loose power during cpuidle sleep states > > so an alternate clocksource is needed and these patches adds the db8500 PRCMU > > timer. > > Why don't we just find a way of fixing sched_clock so that the value > doesn't reset over a suspend/resume cycle? IOW, lets fix the problem > for _everyone_ rather than only fixing it for one platform at a time. > > Could you try this patch to check whether sched_clock() behaves better > across a suspend/resume cycle please?
So do I merge this patch?
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